Sunday, August 3, 2014

Hi Faithful Readers:P Michael Biggs here. I've had a serious change in schedule in my life recently and that is cutting into my writing time. For now, I'll be letting this post rest. There is a history here of almost three years of past blogs that make for some insightful reading and I encourage you to partake as you wish. I would also direct you to two of my other blog sights that you may enjoy.

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Every new invention has never been seen
before. And there are hundreds and
thousands of nay-sayers standing on the sidelines telling us it can’t be
done.

So what?

What if you did pull it off?

I saw a copy of a letter that Henry
Mancini received in 1957. Mr. Mancini
was considered a musical genius, phenomenal arranger/orchestrator and dominated
the musical scene in the 60-80’s. The
letter was a rejection letter prohibiting his acceptance into the ASCAP
organization – American Society Composers Arrangers Producers.

He had a “so what” mindset and went on to
conquer the musical world and make a name for himself.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Carolyn and I love to go on
excursions.We have discovered some
superb eating places, charming small seaside communities and memorable shared
experiences on these outings.

And the beautiful thing is this, we look
for the delightful. We can’t always plan
for it, but we manage to find it.

Plans are well and good, and I believe in
planning, however, we make room for those unexpected delights that come
along. Some of our favorite days are
days in which we set out with no agenda and our objective is simply to go
exploring. We look for the unexpected,
the delightful and the new opportunities.
We dare to engage in conversations with strangers and allow the delight
and surprise of the moment to engulf us.

Monday, June 30, 2014

I started out slow as a writer.It almost never happened.But with tenacity and diligence the skill has
come into its own.Along the way I’ve
written a few weak blogs, some lousy paragraphs and have misspelled a few
words.

But that is part of the deal. I continue to pay a price for whatever
measure of success will eventually come.

And you too.

Seth Godin says this: “People
who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning.”

Has your work and best effort been
rejected? That is only an opportunity to
do better work. Figure out what went
wrong and fix it next time.

Friday, June 20, 2014

Just how important is positive emotional
support or a word that says “I believe in you”?

Consider this.

During WWII, a tactic used by the North
Korean army was to deprive American soldiers of emotional support. They accomplished this by sowing a spirit of “it’s
not my job” among the soldiers in their care.
One they broke through in this way, they could get the American boys to
turn on one another and abandon any spirit of comradery that formerly existed
among them. Once 40 men watched as 3 of
their prison mates were thrown out of their mud hut and left to die in the
elements. They said, “It’s not my job.”

Another tactic was to withhold a
supportive letter from home while delivering overdue bills from collection
agencies and letters of sad news, family break-up and illness.

This had a devastating effect. The prisoners had nothing for which to
live.

There is great value in a well-placed
word of hope, an affirming hand on one’s shoulder and an encouraging word of “you’re
going to make it; I believe in you, we’ll get through this together”.

Monday, May 12, 2014

If we don’t figure out how to bounce
after every miss-step we break apart.A
bounce is nothing but resilience.It is
tenacity to try and try again.Life is
one big long race toward the finish line.Along the way there will be pot holes, pit falls, barriers, cliffs,
crevices and confusion.

If we crack up at the first sign of an
obstacle, that is a major breakdown.
Rather, may we have the guts to bounce back, overcome, tunnel through or
whatever other metaphor you chose to use.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

A duet is a musical composition for two
performers.They can be singers,
pianists, or any other combination of two instruments.

Marriages should be role models of
duets. If so, you work together, you
harmonize and you allow each other a moment to shine individually and them come
back together and do the duet thing as the score indicates.

Business partners operate as duet, hopefully. The success of their business enterprise
demands that very fact.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Harmony is a pleasing effect in musical
terms.It occurs when two or more notes
are in perfect relationship to one another.Harmony is good.Disharmony is
not.

For instances the notes – C E G create a
perfect triad for a C major chord. We
could even and a Bb and make this a seventh chord, which also adds a bit of new
color and beauty.

Flat the E – which becomes C Eb G Bb and
you create a minor seventh, which yet again adds a nice color.

Harmony in life is two or more
individuals in sync and agreeing on a certain direction. If one takes a contrary opinion, then
disharmony sets in. And if you add ten
other voices and they are evenly split and take differing sides, then you have
cacophony. That is disharmony at its
worst and it hurts my ears.

Monday, April 28, 2014

In music, a “postlude” is the final prt
of a piece of music.Often in a church
service one will hear a postlude, often performed on an organ.

A concluding passage in a speech can
often be referred to as a “postlude” as well.

I’ve had to sit through a few postludes
in boring sermons, and I’m not talking about just one postlude. Once, there was this preacher and I tell you
he did about six postludes. He was what
you might call “wound tight” and had a lot to say.